Our fabulous selection of readings is now available
for the spring 2016 quarter.
You can see the schedule & readings from previous years below:
[2014-2015]
[2013-2014]
[2012-2013]
[2011-2012]
[2010-2011]
Spring 2016
| Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
| Apr 22 | Optimal or not | Yang 2016 in press |
Yang
2005 Yang 2015 |
| May 6 |
Sentence processing |
Snedeker
& Huang in press |
Snedeker
2013 |
| May 20 |
Quantifiers |
Moscati
& Crain 2014 |
Gualmini
& Schwarz 2009 |
| Jun 3 |
Superlatives |
Wellwood
et al. 2016 |
Winter 2016
| Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
| Jan 20 | Syntactic categories | Gutman et al. 2014 |
Frank
et al. 2013 |
| Feb 3 |
Syntax-semantics interface |
van
Schijndel & Elsner 2014 |
Connor
et al. 2010 Connor et al. 2013 |
| Feb 17 |
Distributional learning |
Yang 2015 |
Yang 2013 |
| Mar 2 |
Distributional learning |
Goldberg
& Boyd
2015 |
Yang 2015 |
Fall 2015
| Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
| Oct 7 | Lexical development | Meylan & Griffiths 2015 |
Frank
et al. 2009 Gagliardi et al. 2012 Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 |
| Oct 21 | Lexicon + syntax | Braginsky et al. 2015 | |
| Nov 4 |
Theory construction & Poverty of the stimulus |
Pietroski
2015 in press |
Berwick et al. 2011 |
| Monday Nov 30 |
Grammar restrictions: Phonology |
Morley
2015 |
Hayes
& Wilson 2008 Pearl 2011 |